Gabrielle Schaad

Gabrielle Schaad studied art history, East Asian art history, and medieval archeology in Zurich, Paris, and Tokyo. Her doctorate, completed in 2016 at ETH Zurich, focused on the pitfalls of technological optimism in Japanese art and architecture of the 1960s. In 2016 she held a residential scholarship at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart. From 2013 to 2015, she was a research scholarship grantee of the Japanese Ministry of Education (MEXT) and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) in Tokyo and Saitama. In 2011 she initiated the nomadic exhibition and discussion format Le Foyer – In Process. In addition to previous work as a curatorial assistant, e.g., at the Art Museum of Lucerne and Kunsthaus Zurich, she is the author of numerous catalog contributions and reviews of contemporary art at the interface to architecture and urbanism. 2017-2019 she taught as a scientific assistant at the Visiting Lectureship for Architectural Theory Dr. Torsten Lange, Institute gta, Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich. Since 2017 she has been a research associate and lecturer in the Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). In 2019 she joined the Chair for Theory & History of Architecture, Art and Design at the Technical University Munich, where she continues her previous research and teaching on collective initiatives, care work, spatializations of power, and gender relations in a transcultural context.